The first poster for Ali Abbas Zafar's upcoming Sultan, starring Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma, was released online on Monday evening.

The wrestling film, which has been dubbed 'the most awaited movie of 2016' by some quarters, has been largely shrouded in secrecy and its poster is the first real piece of promotional material that has been released by Yash Raj Films, its producer.

Moments after it was put out, the poster was shared on Twitter by various websites and industry professionals, who used various complimentary adjectives to describe it, such as: